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It was Netflix's first German-language original series.
Which two people created Dark?
They are creative and romantic partners who later made 1899.
How many seasons of Dark were made?
Ten episodes in the first, eight each in the second and third.
How many episodes of Dark are there in total?
The three seasons ran from December 2017 to June 2020.
Which logical puzzle does Dark's plot structure make prominent use of?
Objects and people in the show have no origin, only a loop.
Which actor leads Dark's ensemble cast as Jonas Kahnwald?
He won a Danish film award for playing a prisoner of war before Dark.
On what date did the first season of Dark premiere?
All ten episodes dropped at once.
What are the four central families of Winden?
Their ties are exposed as the conspiracy unravels.
In which year does the first season begin?
It later expands to 1986 and 1953 via time travel.
Where is the wormhole located in Winden?
The gates to the plant were filmed at Berlin's Olympic Stadium bell tower.
What is the name of the time-travel society introduced in season two?
The Latin means "Thus the World Was Created".
On what date does the apocalypse occur in Winden?
It is also the real release date of the third season.
What does the third season introduce alongside the original reality?
Alternate versions of many main characters appear there.
Which new year is added as a storyline in season three?
Adult Jonas spends months there building a machine to reactivate the portal.
Where did the BBC rank Dark among the greatest TV series of the 21st century in 2021?
BuzzFeed went further and called it one of the 25 best shows of all time.
Which musician composed Dark's opening theme "Goodbye"?
Soap&Skin features on the track.
Who composed the score for Dark?
He is an Australian-born composer based in Reykjavík.
Which company produced Dark?
Its founders Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann were executive producers.
Who directed every episode of Dark?
His co-creator wrote or co-wrote every episode.
What is Jonas known as when he appears as an adult time traveller?
Andreas Pietschmann plays the adult version.
What is the elderly Jonas, leader of Sic Mundus, called?
He is disfigured and played by Dietrich Hollinderbäumer.
Who plays the teenage Martha?
She also starred in the Netflix film Isi & Ossi.
What is the elderly Martha, leader of the rival faction, called?
She is played by Barbara Nüsse.
What is the profession of Hannah, Jonas's mother?
She is Jonas's mother and Michael's wife.
Who plays the police officer Ulrich?
He was known internationally for playing Hitler in Look Who's Back.
What is Katharina Nielsen's job in 2019?
Her husband Ulrich is a police officer.
What is Charlotte Doppler's job in 2019?
Her husband Peter is Jonas's psychologist.
Which of Charlotte and Peter's daughters is deaf?
In the alternate world it is Franziska who is deaf instead.
What is the title of the Winden clockmaker's book?
In German it is Eine Reise durch die Zeit.
Who is Bartosz's father, the plant director in 2019?
He is the plant's director in 2019.
What is Aleksander's real birth name?
He assumed the identity of a bank-robbery victim.
What business does Regina Tiedemann run?
The Stranger checks in there in 2019.
Who founded the Winden nuclear power plant?
He hid barrels from a small meltdown in the caves.
Who succeeds the plant's founder as director of the power plant in 1986?
She is Egon's daughter and Regina's mother.
What is Noah's real name?
He is Bartosz and Silja's son.
Who plays the priest Noah?
His character is Charlotte's biological father.
Who is Noah's younger sister?
She arrives in 1953 Winden as Tronte's mother.
Who is Silja Tiedemann's mother?
Her father is Egon Tiedemann, making her Jonas's half-sister.
Who is the child known as the Unknown?
He appears as child, adult and elder simultaneously.
What is the name of the police inspector sent to Winden in 2020?
He is the brother of the real Aleksander Köhler.
Which real 1986 disaster is referenced in relation to the dead birds?
Teenage Hannah's father warns Jonas about contaminated rain in 1986.
Which of Ulrich and Katharina's children disappears in the first episode?
He wakes up in the caves on 5 November 1986.
Which local drug dealer had gone missing two weeks before the pilot?
His father is a driver at the power plant.
What is the name of Ulrich's brother, who vanished in 1986?
His body appears in 2019, not aged in 33 years.
On what date in 1986 does the missing boy discover he has travelled through time?
He learns it from a newspaper on the doorstep.
Who does the boy who vanished in the pilot grow up to become?
He is raised by the nurse Ines and later marries Hannah.
What injury do the dead boys and the dead birds share?
A flock of sheep dies the same way in 1986.
What is the Latin phrase on the door Jonas finds in the caves?
It means "Thus the world was created".
What is in the package Regina delivers to Jonas from her hotel guest?
The letter reveals that Mikkel is Jonas's father.
On what date did Michael's letter say he travelled back to 1986?
He stayed, grew up, married Hannah and fathered Jonas.
How many years apart do the wormhole's connected time periods lie?
Travel is possible only in 33-year increments.
What false accusation does teenage Hannah make against Ulrich in 1986?
Ulrich is arrested; Katharina cannot convince Egon otherwise.
What object does the clockmaker find after Ulrich attacks Helge in 1953?
He later uses it to complete the brass time machine.
Whom does Ulrich bludgeon and leave for dead in 1953?
He believes killing him will save the boys.
How does the elderly Helge die in 1986?
He was trying to stop the abductions.
Where does Jonas wake up at the end of season one?
He is knocked out by an armed woman.
What is the German title of the first episode, "Secrets"?
Episode two is "Lügen" (Lies) and five is "Wahrheiten" (Truths).
What is the title of the season-one finale?
In it the Stranger reveals himself as the adult Jonas.
In what year is young Noah building the passage that becomes the portal?
He kills his fellow builder for having lost faith.
Who leads the survivors in post-apocalyptic 2053 Winden?
She forbids entry to the power plant on pain of death.
What is the floating black blob in the power plant's Dead Zone called?
Claudia's recordings explain it can be used as a portal.
Who frees Jonas from his 2053 captivity?
They enter the Dead Zone together.
Who kills the elderly former plant director in the forest in 1954?
She had just delivered Tannhaus's book to him.
What does the elderly former plant director give her younger self in 1987?
Later Claudia uses it to travel to 2020 and see the dying Regina.
Where does the injured Jonas find himself at the start of "The Travelers"?
Noah escorts him to meet Adam.
What does Noah reveal to Charlotte in season two?
Her mother is the adult Elisabeth, her own daughter.
Who convinces Michael that he must die so that Jonas can be conceived?
Michael reveals that Jonas himself led Mikkel into the portal.
What nickname does Helge give the woman he blames for his 1954 kidnapping?
Egon repeats it with his dying breath in 1987.
How does Egon Tiedemann die in 1987?
He was about to send officers into the caves.
Who kills Noah in 1921?
His gun had failed to fire at Adam moments earlier.
Whom does Adam shoot in the season-two finale?
Another Martha then arrives, saying she is from another world.
What does the visiting inspector open in the power plant, triggering the apocalypse?
Charlotte had feared he would provoke it.
How many years has the elderly Ulrich spent incarcerated by 1987?
He was arrested in 1953 after attacking Helge.
Which two older Sic Mundus members share concerns with Adam in 1921?
They activate the machine in 1921 in the finale.
What does the Unknown burn down in 1987?
He then assassinates Bernd Doppler and steals the plant keys.
In the alternate 2019, who is Hannah married to?
In that world Jonas was never born and Regina is dead.
How is Gustav, the 1888 industrialist, related to the Winden clockmaker?
He is an industrialist fascinated with time travel in 1888.
Who smothers the ailing Regina in September 2020?
He believed she was his child.
What is the name of Eva's faction?
The Latin means "Let There Be Light".
Who kills Katharina in 1987?
Katharina's own future mother bludgeons her and drowns the body in the lake.
Who shoots Jonas dead in Eva's world in "Life and Death"?
Eva tells him he has served his purpose.
Which two characters have children Hanno and Agnes in the 1890s?
Silja dies giving birth to Agnes.
Whom does Jonas murder in 1911 as he transforms into Adam?
He sends her daughter Silja to post-apocalyptic Winden.
Who are the parents of Charlotte Doppler?
Elisabeth and Charlotte kidnap the baby from 2041 and deliver her to Tannhaus.
What shape describes the knot linking Adam's and Eva's worlds?
The knot originated outside both their worlds.
Who created the time machine that split the origin world in two?
He was trying to prevent the death of his family.
How is the cycle finally ended in the last episode?
Both their worlds are erased from existence.
Who is Hannah expecting a child with in the origin world?
His eye has healed in that world.
What triggers Hannah's déjà vu at the dinner party in the final scene?
She says she has always liked the name Jonas.
Which Nena song plays over the end credits of the series finale?
The finale also features Soap&Skin's cover of "What a Wonderful World".
Which vocal ensemble's recordings feature heavily in season one?
They perform Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices.
In and around which city was Dark filmed?
Locations included Saarmund and Tremsdorf in Brandenburg.
Which landmark's gates stood in for the power plant gates?
The reactor towers themselves were computer-animated.
Where was the church where Jonas meets Noah filmed?
The high school was the Reinfelder Schule in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Where was the truck stop with Benni's caravan located?
Zollamt Berlin-Dreilinden was once a Cold War crossing.
In what resolution was Dark filmed?
It was the first German-language Netflix original.
Which two shows did early critics most often compare Dark to?
Refinery29 called it darker and more in-depth than Stranger Things.
What Rotten Tomatoes score did the second season receive?
Metacritic gave it 82 out of 100.
Which German award did Dark win in 2018 in the Fiction category?
Friese, Odar, and actors Winkler, Hofmann and Masucci were singled out.
Which award did the actor who plays Jonas receive at the 2018 Goldene Kamera?
The show's other three nominations went unrewarded.
When was the third and final season released?
That date is also the day of the apocalypse in the show.
What is the title of the first Ben Frost soundtrack album for the show?
It includes a track called "Kein DeLorean".
In which country was the show's director born?
He has Turkish descent on his mother's side.
Which Odar–Friese film topped the German cinema charts before Dark?
It was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Fiction Feature Film in 2015.
Which Hollywood thriller starring Jamie Foxx did Odar direct?
Michelle Monaghan co-starred and it was shot in Atlanta.
What was the name of the second Netflix series Odar and Friese created?
It followed passengers on the steamship Kerberos and was cancelled after one season.
What is the name of the steamship in Odar and Friese's follow-up series?
It encounters the mysteriously empty Prometheus, lost four months earlier.
Which Danish film won the actor who plays Jonas a Bodil Award before Dark?
He played a teenage German prisoner of war clearing landmines.
Which Mark Twain character gave the actor who plays Jonas his first film lead?
He sang on the soundtrack with the boy who played Huck Finn.
Which infamous figure did the actor who plays Ulrich portray in Look Who's Back?
Some scenes filmed real reactions of people on the street.
In which Fantastic Beasts film did the actor who plays Ulrich portray Anton Vogel?
He was born in Stuttgart to an Italian father.
Which Netflix film starred the actress who plays Martha in the lead role of Isi?
She was born in Munich in 1997.
In which city has composer Ben Frost been based since 2005?
He was born in Melbourne, Australia.
How many one-hour episodes did Netflix approve for Dark's first season in February 2016?
Principal photography began in October 2016 in and around Berlin and wrapped in March 2017.
Which Berlin school served as the filming location for the Winden high school?
The bridge and train tracks were shot on the abandoned Wannsee-Stahnsdorf railway in the Düppeler forest.
Which Caroline Shaw work featured prominently in season one via Roomful of Teeth?
Its third movement recurs through the season; Alev Lenz's 'May the Angels' appears in season two.
Which cover version plays in the series finale alongside the Nena end-credits song?
Soap&Skin also collaborated with Apparat on the show's opening theme.
What Rotten Tomatoes approval rating did the third and final season receive?
Metacritic gave the season an average of 92, with the finale praised as a satisfying conclusion.
Which two Goldene Kamera 2018 acting nominations did Dark receive, without winning either?
Louis Hofmann did take home Best Newcomer at the same ceremony.
Which actress plays the elderly Ines Kahnwald, Jonas's adoptive grandmother?
Winkler was among the cast singled out for the 2018 Grimme-Preis as representatives of the ensemble.
Where did Odar and Friese's follow-up series 1899 hold its two-episode premiere in September 2022?
It launched on Netflix that November with a making-of documentary, then was cancelled in January 2023.
Louis Hofmann, who plays Jonas, grew up in which German city?
He was born in the Bensberg district of Bergisch Gladbach in 1997.
Dark holds what distinction among Netflix's in-house productions?
It followed a run of international originals such as Mexico's Club de Cuervos, Brazil's 3% and Italy's Suburra.
Besides Berlin, season one was shot in Saarmund and Tremsdorf, villages in which German state?
Principal photography ran from 18 October 2016 to March 2017 after Netflix ordered ten one-hour episodes.
How were the Winden nuclear plant's reactor towers created for the show?
Only the gates were real, borrowed from the Olympic Stadium bell tower in Berlin.
What Rotten Tomatoes approval rating did the first season of Dark receive?
Critics praised a slow-burning central mystery; seasons two and three climbed to 100% and 97%.
What Metacritic score did the second season of Dark earn?
IGN's David Griffin gave the season an 'amazing' 9 out of 10 and The Guardian and Empire each awarded four stars.
The recurring bus stop and T-intersection scene was shot at a driving academy in which town?
The truck stop with Benni's caravan was shot at Zollamt Berlin-Dreilinden, the former Checkpoint Bravo.
Alev Lenz's 'May the Angels', featuring Roomful of Teeth, plays in which season-two episode?
Roomful of Teeth had already supplied Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices to season one.
In which month and year did principal photography on Dark's first season begin?
Netflix had approved the show that February; filming wrapped in March 2017 ahead of the December premiere.
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